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HISTORY—In which v:111 be tomprised and continued what has long been felt to be a desideratum in our national literature ; ♦iz., a record of our own times, from sources more authentic and impartial than the columns of a party newspaper. It is proposed %o commence this record with the Accession of Victoria I. No. 14.175. PRICE sd. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1838. PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION. Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Wood, G. W.—Kendal Westtenra, Hon. H. R.—Monaghan Wood, T. J.—Middlesex Wilberforce, W.—Hull Wrightson, W. B.—Northzilleiton Wilbraham, George—Cheshire Wynn, Right Hon. C. W.—Mont.. Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Linca- gomeryshire shire Young, Geo. Fred.—Tynemouth W ilkins, Walter—ltadnershiro Young, John—Cavan Williams, Robert—Dorchester Young, Sir W. L.—Bucks; NVil sh ere, Will iam—Yarmout h TELLERS. Wodehouce, Edmund—Norfolk Seymour, Lord—Totness Wood, Charles—Halifax Smith, R. Vernon—Northampton liberty to introduce a Bill to improYe the courts of passage of that borough, BALLOT. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of tommons.) THE BALLOT. THURSDAY, Fll3. 15. -- --- Motion made, and Question proposed,—" That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for taking the Votes o f P ar li amen t ar y El ectors by way of Ballot :"—(Mr.Grote : )—The House divided : IL POLlTlCS—regarded not as a combination of mechaniol prin ciples, applicable, whether for Democracy or Despotism, to every melon and every age, but as that a r t, b y w hi c h a ll t h e circumstan ces and agen c i es o f the time, duly examined and considered, arc practically adapted to advance those blessings for which a State is the trustee to a people,—Order—Liberty—and Knowledge. 111. 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There are very large arrivals of all kinds of Grain reported this 'track, and a considerable quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade main tains Monday's terms. Barley continues very dull. Beans and Pease r e Unaltered. The l arge quan tit y o f I r i sh Oats has rendered this lastdull, and la s t d a y' s pr i ces are h ardly supported. Flour supports 'est quoted rates. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. today continues at 495. Ad. COLONIAL MARKETS. Very little business was done to-day; we had not a single public " 1 0 of any magnitude, owing to the continuance of this very severe 'weather. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 15. The business transacted at our Cotton Market this day, was to a limited extent only, and as American descriptions are offering very Plen tifully, prices of thi s sor t are somew h at d epresse d . The total sales a tnottnt to 2,000 bales. 1,650 Americans, 6 3 At07 % ; • 150 Pernam, 9 i i 200 Surat, 4i to 51. Total, 2,000. SPORTING I N TELLIGENCE. TATTERSAL' S—Y . The b e tti ng was so flat, an L d altogether s ESTERDA o devoid of interest, that we shall make no apology for confining our notice to a general statement of the odds at the close of the room. THE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—taken and after wards offered 10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt—taken 10 to 1 agst Ltd G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—offered 13 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentiock's D'Egville—offered 18 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—taken 25 • t o 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—offered fr.s to 1 apt Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—take 30 to 1 21 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Mono Adam—taken 33 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Dash—taken and afterwards offered 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt—taken 2000 to 20 agst Colonel Crauford's Brother to Sinbad—taken 275 to 50 agst Grey Momus and D'Egville—taken 650 to 50 agst Bamboo and Mont Adam—taken 4 , Ono bet was ma d e on M onc Ad am at 27 t o 1. No others men tioned. Scott's horses are now en route for Newmarket, in two divisions, twelve each. They will arrive in two or three days. i 'LOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY•) EA.L, FRB. 15.--Wind E.S.E. strong breezes.—Came down from the er last night, and sailed, the Inglis, Routh, for Bombay; John, Smith, for Syd ney ; an d A s i a, Willb ac k , f or M a lt a. ' . ° l trismourn, FEB. 15.—Wind E S K—lt has blown a heavy gale all and to-day from E.S.E., and every appearance of its continuing. 'ltt hack her Majesty's ship Partridge for the Eastward. LlvititeooL, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Jefferson, Mann, from New urle ans; and Laura Ann, Cecil, from Lisbon. Off port—lsaac, Hicks, i r °r n Watchez ; Lyon, from Ditto r ; Superb, from Charleston ; Victoria, d i n v , rn . ditto; Propontas, from Savannah ; Alexander Grant, from Ditto; k .,:nn, from New Fork; Byron, from Ditto; Cannon, from New Orleans; f ra . "a. from Ditto; Chieftain, from Bahia; Dampier, from Sara. rills; Chalco, from Laguna; Ellen, Highfield, from Marseilles; Sophia, °4l D emerara ; Donna Maria, from Oporto ; Sehaway, from Bordeaux. 'alsrot, FEB. 15. Arrived the Dart, Grace, from St. 'Michael's. CLID B, FRB. 13.—Arrived the Susan, Humble, from Charleston. The Tagso, for Savannah, and Fras. Dcpan, for Gwyetoun, were in -°4tact today (15th) in the river; the latter lost bowsprit. R : r he Hopew e ll, Di xon, f rom S un d er l an d, struck on the Horse Shoe "4 , 14th inst., and filled—crew saved. 'be Wolf, late R e id, f rom Gl asgow to Londonderry, foundered 3d "R.--erew saved. The Nederlander, Hofker, from Surinam to Amsterdam, put into D over. vgry leaky, &c., and must discharge. ~ lanthe, 1111(ctizie, trom Limerick, arrived off Portsmouth, 4 3 ''ng struck on the Dean Sand, bound for London. There are three or four of the Inland Mails not yet arrived, viz., the bat h, Davenport, and Exeter. t COVE NT G ARDEN T HEATRE .—We were h a ppy ,W,i.tlless last night the successful production of a new play, in five acts, pri`nls theatre, entitled the Lady of Lyons ; or, Love and Pride. The eitnci?al characters were sustained by Mr. Macready and Miss 11. Fau. to. But the press of Parliamentary matter compels us to defer until hi mor row our remarks upon the piece, which we consider will hold a tt : 1 _ 11 rank in modern dramatic literature; n to the theatre; MINORITY. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Aglionby, Major F.—Cumberland Ainsworth, I'.—Bolton Anson, Colonel—Staffordshire Archbold, Robert—Kildare Attwood, Thos.—Birmingham Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Baines, Edward—Leeds Ball, Nieholas—Clonmell Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Barron, H. W.—Waterford City Barry, G. S.—Cork Co. Beawish, F. B —Cork Bellew, R. M.—Louth Bentinck, Lord W —Glasgow Berkeley, Hon. F. H.—Bristol Bernal, Ralph —Rochester 'Jewes, Thomas—Plymouth Blake, M. J.—Galway Blake, W. J.—Newport Blewitt, Reginald—Monmouth Blunt, Sir Charles—Lewes Bodkin, J. James—Galway Co. Bowes, John—South Durham Brabazon, Sir William—Mayo Co. Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Brotherton, J.—Salford Browne, R. D.—Mayo - Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Buller, Charles—Liskeard Buller, E.—North Staffordshire Bulwer, E. L.—Lincoln I3iisfield, W.—Bradford Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Callaghan, D.—Cork City Carnes,;, Sir James R —Sandwich Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Chapman, Sir M. L.--Westmeath Chester, Henry—Loutn Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets Clive, Edward B.—Hereford Collier, John—Plymouth Collins, W.—Warwick Conyngham, Lord A.—Canterbury Crawford, W.—London Currie, Raikes—Northampton Dashwood, G. H.—Wycombe Davies, Colonel—Worcester Denison, W. J.—West Surrey Denistoun, J.—Glasgow D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. C. T.— Lambeth Divett, Edward—Exeter Duckworth, Samuel—Leicester Duke, Sir James—Boston Duncan, Viscount—Southampton Duncombe, T. S,—Finsbury Dundas, C. W. D.—Flint Dundas, Frederick—Orkney Dundas, Hon. J. C.—York Dundas, J. Deans—Devizes Easthepe, J.—Leicestrr Eliot, Hon. J. C.—Roxburghshire Ellice, Capt. A —Harwich Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's Erle, Wrri.—Ox ford Etwall, Ralph—Andover Evans, George—Dublin Co. Evans, W. De Lacy—Westminster Fenton, John—Rochdale Ferguson, Sir R. C.—Nottingham Fielden, John—Oldham Finch, F.—Walsall Fitzgibbon, Hon. R.—Limerick Co F tzsimon, Nicholas—King's Co. Fort, J.—Clitheroe Gibson, James—Belfast Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow Grattan, Henry—Meath Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil Hall, Benjamin— Mar y I ebon e Harvey, D. W.—Smithwark Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, I. Wight Hector, C. J.—Petersfield Heron, Sir R.—Peterborough Hindley, Charles—Ashton Hobhouse, T. B.—Rochester Hodges, T. L.—West Kent Hollond, Robert—Hastings Horsman, Edward—Cockermouth Howard, F. J.—Youghall flume, Joseph—Kilkenny Humphery, John—Southwark Hutton, Robert—Dublin James, William—Cumberland Jeplison, D. o.—Mallow Jervis, J.—Chester -AYES, 198. Jervis, S.—Bridport Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Kinnaird, Hon. A. F.—Perth Lambton, H.—North Durham Langdale, Hon. C.—Knaresborough Langton, Wm. Gore —Somerset s hi re Leader, John T.—Westminster Lister, E. Canliffe—Bradford Lushington, Charles—Ashburton M'Leod, R.—lnverness Maher, Jno.—Wexford Co. Marshall, W.—Carlisle Marsland, Henry—Stockport Martin, John—Tewkesbury Maule, W. H.—Carlow Melgund, Viscount —Hythe Molesworth, Sir William—Leeds . Muskett, George A.—St. Albau's Nagle, Sir R.—Westmeath O'Callaghan, Hon. C.—Dungarran O'Connell, Daniel—Dublin O'Connell, John—Athlone O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry O'Connell, Morgan—Meath lO'Connor, Don—Roscommon 'Paget, Frederick—Beaumaris IPalmer, Charles Fyshe—Reading Parrot, Jasper—Totness Pattison, James—London 1 4 1 Pease, Joseph—South Durham PeChen, Captain—Brighton Pendarves, E. W. \V.—Cornwall Philips, Mark—Manchester Phillpotts, John—Gloucester Ponsonby, Hon. John—Derby Poulter ' J. S.—Shaftesbury Power, James—Wexford Co. Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Pryme, George—Cambridge Ramsbottom, John—Windsor Redington, T. N.—Dundalk Rice, Edward Iloyd—Dover Rippon, C.—Gateshead Roche, E. B.—Cork Co. Roche, William—Limerick Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Lord—Tavistock Russell, Lord C. J. F.—Bedfordshire Salwey, Lient..Col.—Ludlow Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Scrope, Poulett—Stroud Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth • Sharpe, General—Dumfries Sinclair, Sir George Caithness Smith, J. A.—Chichester Somers, J. P.—Sligo Somerville, Sir M. W.—Drogheda Speirs, Alexander—Richmond standish, Charles—Wigan Stanley, W. Massey—Pontefract Stanley, W. o.—Anglesea Stansfield, W. It. C.—Huddersfield Steuart, Robert —Haddington Stewart, James—Honiton Strickland, Sir G —West Yorkshire Strutt, Edward—Derbyi Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr Stuart, \V. V.—Waterford Co. Style, Sir Charles—Scarborough Talbot, J. H.—New Ross "falfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading Tancred, W. H.—Banbury Thornely, Thos.—Wolverhampton Tufnell, Henry—lpswich Turner, W.—Blackburn .Vigors, N. A.—Carlow C Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Vivian, Major Charles—Bodmin Vivian, John Henry —Swansea Vivian, Sir R. H.—Cornwall Wakley, Thomas- Finshury Walker, R.—Bury, Lancashire Wallace, Robert—Greenock Warburton, Henry—Bridport Weinyss, Captain—Fifeshire Westenra, Hon. J. C.—King's Co. Whalley, Sir S.—Marylebone: White, Andrew—Sunderland White, Luke—Longford White, Samuel—Leitrim Co. Wilde, Mr. Serjeant—Newark Williams, William—Coventry Williams, W. A.—Monmouthshire Wood, Sir Matthew—London Worslev, Lord—Lincolnshire Wyse, Thomas—Waterfora Wyse, Thomas—Waterford TELLERS. Grote, George—London Ward—H. G.—Sheffield MAJORITY- Acland, Sir T. D.—N. Devonshire Acland, T. D.—West Somerset A'Court, Captain—Tamworth Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C.—Clack mannan Adare, Lord—Glamorganshire Alexander, Viscount—Tyrone Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshlre Alsager, IL—Surrey Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardineshire Ashley, Lord—Dorsetshire Bagge, W.—West Norfolk Bagot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Bailey, J. D.—Sudbury Baillie, H. D.—Honiton Baker, Edward—Wilton Baring, F. Thornhill—Portsmouth Baring, F.—Thetford Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Paring, W. B.—North Staffbrdshire Barneby, John—Worcestershire Barrington, Viscount—Berkshire Baleman, John—Tralee Belfast, Earl of—Belfot Bell, Matthew—S. Northumberland Benett, J.—South Wiltshire Bentinck, Lord G --Lynn Bethel], R.—East Yorkshire Blackburne, I. J.—Warrington Biackett, C.—S. Northumberland Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Blair, J. Wigtoashire Illentierhassett, A.—Kerry Bulling, W.—Bolton Borthwick, Peter—Evesham Bradshaw, James—Canterbury Bramston, T. W:—Essex South Broadley, H.—Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgwater Brownrigg, J. S.—Boston Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath Buller, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Burdett, Sir F.—Wiltshire Burr, D. H. D.—Hereford Burrell, Sir C. Shoreham Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk Bytig, George—Middlesex Bvng, Right Hon. G. S —Chatham Campbell, Sir H.—Berwickshire Campbell, W. F.—Argyleshire Canning, Right Hon. Sir S.—King', Lynn Cantilupe, Viscount—Helston Castlereagh, Viset—Down Co. Cavendish, Hon. C.—East Sussex Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Derby Cayley, E. S.—N. Yorkshire Chandos, Marquis of—Bucks Chaplin, Thomas—Stamford Chapman, Aaron—Whitby Chetwynd, Major W.—Stafford Chisholm, A. \V.—lnverness-shire R A.—Lincolnshire Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk Clive, Viscount—Ludlow Clive, R. H. _ South Shuipshire Codrington, C. W.—Gloucestershire Cole, Lord—Fermanagh Colquhoun, Sir J.—Dunbartonshirc Compton, H. Combo—Hampshire Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal Coote, Sir C. 11., BL—Qceen's Co. Copeland, W. T.--Stoke.upon-Trent Corry, Hon. 11. L.—Tyrone Co. Courtenay, P.—Bridgwater Cowper, W. F.—Hertford Cresswell, Cresswell—Liverpool Crisps, Joseph—Cirencester Curry, William—Armagh Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton Darner, G. L. D.—Portarlington I'arby, George—East Sussex Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle-under Lyme °lsraeli, 8.-Maidstone Dick, Quintin-Maldon Dottin, A. IL-Southampton Douglas, Sir C. G.-Warwick Douro, Marquis-Norwich Dowdeswell, W.-Tewkesbury Duffield, Thomas-Abingdon Dugdale, W. S.-Warwickshire Duncombe, Hon. W.-Yorkshire Duncombe, Hon. A.-East Retford Dungannon, Lord -Durham. Dundas, Hon. T.-Itichmond Dunlop, John-Ayrshire East, James Buller-Win e he Eastnor, Viscount-Reigate Eaton, R. J.-Cambridgeshire Egerton, W. Tatton-Cheshire gerton, Sir P.-Cheshire Egerton, Lord Francis-Lancashire Eliot, Lord-East Cornwall Ellis, John-Newry Estcourt, T. Junior-Devizes Evans William--North Derby Farnham, E 8.-N. Leicestershire Farrand, Robert- Staffind Feilden, W. J.-Blackburn Fellowes, Edw.-Huntingdonshire Ferguson, Sir R. A.-Londondei r Fergusson, Right Hon. R. C.-Kirk cliclbright Fitzroy, Hon. Henry-Lewes Fleming, John-Hampshire Foley, F.. T.-Herefordshi re Fact, Sir W. W.-Exeter " Forbes, William -Sti flings h ire Forester, Hon. G.-Wenlock Fremantle, Sir Thomas-Bucks French, Fit zstephcn-floscommon Gaskell, Jas. M.-Wcnlock Gibson, Thomas -Ipswich Gladstone, W. E.-Newark-on-Trent Goddard, A Glynne, Sir S nib ß rs . o .- 0 111 c in r t i s c h k i i r a e de s rd te e r enshire Gordon,Godson, o -n v d r (jure, 0. J. 11.-Carnarvonshire Goring, H. D.-Nem Shoreham Goultiurn, bridge University Right lion. 11.-Cam_ _Elgin, &c. Grant, Colonel F. W. Greenaway, Charles-Leominster Greene, T. G.-Lancashire G r r t d o i h v , Grimstone, E. H.-St. Al bans is 'l C;Tt r. rt-- taee ll ie e s r fi tt e l l irdshire d G Hale, B. IL-Gloucestershire Halford, Henry-Lei."estershi r e liaise, J.-St. Ives Handley, Henry-Lincolnshire Harcourt, G. 0.-Oxfordshire Harcourt, G. S.-Bucks Hardinge, lt.glit Hon. Sir H.-Laun —NOES, 315. Heathcote, G.J.—Lincolnshire Heneage, E.—Grimsby Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Herries, Right Hon. J. C.—Harwich Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire Hillsborough, Earl of—Down Hinde, John liodgion—Newcattle upon-Tyne Hebhouse, Right Hon. Sir J. Cam Nottingham Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple Hodgson, ltd.—Berwick-on-Tweed llogg, J. W.—Beverley Holmes, Hon W.—lsle of Wight Holmes, W.—Berwick-onTweed Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Hope, H. T.—Gloucester I Totham, Lord—Leominster Houldswortli, T.—Nottinghamshire Houstoun George—Rentrewshire Howard, P. FT.—Carlisle Howard, Hon. W.—Sutherlandshire Howick, Lord—N. Northumberland Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Ingestrie, Lord—Staffordshire Ingham, It. -South Shields Inglis, Sir R. H.—Oxford UtTiV. Ilion, Samuel—Cumberland Irving, John—Antrim Co. Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge James, Sir W.—Hull Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Johnstone. J . J. IT —Porofries-shire Jones, John—Carmarthensh ire Jones, Wilson—Denbigh Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Kemble, FL— Wcst Surrey Knatclibull, Sir E.—East Kent Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Knightley, Sir C.—Northamptonsh. Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry— Taunton Lascelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakefield Law, Hon. C. E.—Cambridge Univ. Lefroy, Right Hon. T.—Dublin Gni versity Lemon, Sir C.—Cornwall Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Leveson, Lord—Morpeth Lewis, Wyndham—Maidstone Lidded, Hon. H.—North Durham Litton, Edward—Coleraine Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshise Logan, Hart—West Suffolk Long, Walter—Wilts Lowther, J. 11—York Lygon, Hon. Colonel H. B.—West - Wor• - estershire Mackenzie, Thomas—Reim-shire 'Mackinnon, W. A.—Lymington 'Maclean, Donald—Oxford 'Meraggart, John—Wigton :Mahon, Viscount—Hertford Nlahony, Pierce—Kinsale Maidstone, Visc.—North Northamp tonshire Manners, Lord C. S.—Leicestershire Marsland, Thomas—Stockport Marton, Geo.—Lancaster Master, Colonel—Cirencester Maunsell, T. P.—Northampt nshire Meynell, Capt. IL—Lisburn Miles, William—Somersetshire Miles, Philip John—Bristol Milnes, R. M.—Pontefract Milton, Lord—Malton Monypenny, T. G.—Rye Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwickshire Morpetb, Lord—Yorkshire Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham Neeld, John—Cricklade Norrcvs, Lord—Oxfordshire Ossulston, Lord—North Northum- berland Packe, Chas. Wm.—Leicestershire Paget, Lord Alfred—Lichfield Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Palmer, Robert--Berks Palmer, George—Essex Palmerston, Viscount—Tiverton Parker, Montagu—Devon Parke-, R. T.—Preston Parker, 'l'. A. W.—Oxtordshire Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire Peel, Right lion. Sir R.—Tamworth Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. Perceval, G. J. West Surrey Peyton, Henry—Woodstock Philipps, Sir It —Haverfordwest Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Planta, Joseph—Hastings Phimptre, John P.—East Kent Polhill, Frederick—Bedford Powell, Colonel—Cardiganshire Praed, W. M —Aylesbury Price, Sir R.—Herefordshire Price, Richard—New Radnor Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire ,Pusey, Philip—Berkshire ' Reid, Sir J. Rae—Dover lame, Right Lion. 'l'. S.—Cambridgo IRichards, Richard—Merionethshire Bickford, William—Aylesbury Rolfe, Sir R. M.—Penrhyn Rolleston, Col—South Nottingham Rose, Sir George—Christchurch Round, John Rushbrooke, Colonel—West Suffolk Rushout, George Bowles—Evesham Russell, Lord John--Stroud St. Paul, Horace— Wrrcestcrshlre Sanderson, Richard—Colchester Sandon, Scarlett, lion. J. Y.—Guildford Scarlet. lion. Robert—Norwich Shaw, Rt. lion. F.—Dublin Univer. Sheppard, Thomas—Frome Shirley, E. J —Warwickshire Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln Slaney, It. A.—Shrewsbury Smith, A.—Hertfordshire Smith, R. J.—Wycombe Somerset, Lord G.—Monmouthshire Spencer, Ho❑ F.—Midhurst Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Stewart, John—Lyrnington itrangways, lion. John—Dorset Stuart, Henry—Bedford Stunt, Henry Charles—Dersetshire Sugden, Sir E.—Ripon Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex Talbot, C. R. M.—Glamorganchirc l' , . l lemache, Hon. F.—Grantham Townley, Rd. G —Cambridgeshire French, Sir F.—Scarborough l'utner, Edmund—Truro Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk Verner, Colonel--Armagh co. Villiers, Viscount —We, mouth Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Wall, C. Baring—Guildford ceston Harland, W. C.—Durham Hawker, Thomas—Dudley Hayes, Sir E —Donegal Heathcote, Sir G.—Rutland ELECTION COMMITTEES. (Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.) BELFAST. He did not contend that the electors should be precluded from the following up the investigation as to the qualifications of the sitting Members, and as to the clwges of bribery. But before they went into a scrutiny to ascertain who had the majority of the votes, he should show that the majority could not be in favour of Tennant and Dunbar, because they were disqualified. Mr. Thessiger had said that he should disencumber the case of Mr. Gibson, and he (Mr. H.) would disencumber it of the other two.—( A laugh.) Mr. THESSIGER objected to this 'course, and the question was argued at great length, and the Committee retired to deliberate. The decision at length was, that the Committee would not interfere with the course proposed to be pursued by the Counsel for the petitioners. Mr. THESSIGER said that he would proceed with proof of Mr. Gibson's disqualification, and called a witness to prove the service of notice on that gentleman to produce his qualifi cation. Mr. HARRISON proposed an arrangement respecting th• deeds to be put in to prove the qualification of Mr. Gibson, in this instance, and of Messrs. Tenant and Dunbar after wards ; to which Mr. Austin (who was with Mr. Thessi,ger) replied, " You are too old, and I am not young enough for that."—(A laugh.) Several deeds were then put in, and amongst others a will was produced by an officer of the Prerogative Court in Dublin, who being asked his name, said " Henry T. Higgins—that is, I mane T, for shortness."—(Great laughter.) The Committee adjourned at half-past three. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FKB. 15. Mr. Prendergast, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Featherston, from the Court of Chancery in Ireland, in the Registrar's Office of that Court, brought up papers, which were ordered to be laid on the table. Lord DA CRE presented a petition from Royston, in the County of Cambridge, and one from Melbourne and its vici nity, praying for immediate negro emancipation ; also a petition from the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Guardian of the Union of Bedford, praying that the landlords of low rented tenements might be charged with the rates. Lord MINTO presented a petition from Jcdburgh praying for Vote by Ballot, in the prayer of which it was unnecssary for him to say he could not concur. The Earl of RIPON seeing his Noble and Learned Friend in his place, who had given notice of a motion for Monday next, wished to know whether he would object to postpone bis motion till Tuesday? If he would agree to that, he (Lord Ripon) would postpone the second reading of the Sodor and Man Bill from Tuesday till Thursday. Lord BROUGHAM said it would givo him great satis faction to do so, especially as he found he should not be able to put the House in possession of the detailed particulars of his notice of motion till to-morrow, which he had hoped to have been able to have done to-day. The motion was then agreed to be postponed from Monday till Tuesday, and the second reading-of the Sodor and Man Bill from Tuesday till Thursday. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, signed by five thousand persons, from the barony of the Gorbals, which constituted a considerable portion of the constituency of Glasgow, to which he requested their Lordships' particular attention. The petitioners prayed for vote by ballot. They expressed great regret that the Reform Bill had limited the suffrage as it had, and they also prayed that it might be reconsidered in that respect. He was about to present a great many petitions praying for Vote by Ballot, and the extension of the Suffrage, and in a great many of which a prayer for the shortening of Parliament was also added. Front those petitions it appeared that the general feeling of the country was that there should be Vote by Ballot and Extension of the Suffrage. The Noble and Learned Lord then presented petitions to such effect from a large body of the inhabitants of Berwick-on-Tweed, agreed to at a public meeting ; the borough of Canterbury ; the Royal Burgh of Cupar Fife; Llanddgwiffny ; Park -lane and its vici?" nity, in the county of Lancaster ; Lewes, in the county of Sussex ; Yeovil, in the county of Somerset ; Ludlow, in the county of Salop ; the electors and others of Widdlescombe ; the inhabitants of East Chinock, in Somerset; Cardigan, Mandeville ; the inhabitants of Barwick, in Somerset ; West Cocker, in the county of Somerset ; East Glinton, in Had dingtonshire ; Rochester, Chatham and Stroud, in the county of Kent ; Margate, Fromewell, in the county of Somer set ; Dumfries and Maxwelldown, Shrewsbury; Wakefield, Hereford, and some other places. The Noble and Learned Lord then said he had a number of petitions likewise to pre sent on the subject, which he should have the honour of calling their Lordships' attention to on Tuesday next—petitions pray ing for the shortening of the bondage of negro slavery. Those petitions were from Millburnton, in the county of Somerset ; \\ ellington, in the county of Somerset; Diss, in the county of Norfolk ; Holt, in the county of Norfolk • the Mayor, Alder men, and Common-C ounc il o f t h e town Of Liverpool ; a place in the county of Devon; Florseington, in the county of Devon ; Fromewell, in the county of Scrnerset ; Pierhead, in the county of Cumberland ; Alsinghain, in the county of Southampton ; a congregation of Dissenters assem bling in Birmingham ; a congregation of Dissenters assembling at Walsall; a Meeting of Dissenters assembling in Devonshire-street, London ; Hoxley ; Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, adopted at a public meeting held Ist Januaty last; llartpool, Durham ; the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of Hereford; \Vales next the Sea in Norfolk; Dudley, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, and other inhabi tants of the borough and city of Lichfield, agreed to in Com mon Hall assen.bled. The inhabitants of Ledborough in Yorkshire ; and from some other places. GLASGOW COTTON-SPINNERS. Lord BROUGHAM said he had a petition, signed by almost all the most respectable bookbinders of London and Westminster; and also one from the inhabitants of Brighton, adopted at a public meeting held on the sth inst., to present to their Lordships, strongly recommending their Lordships to take some means for obtaining the mercy of the Crown, if pos sible, in favour of the unfortunate men who were lately convicted of seditious practices in Scotland. The Noble and Learned Lord said, in consequence of what had been stated in . your Lordships' House upon this subject, and which had been taken up with the greatest zeal elsewhere, it was supposed that he had attacked the conduct of an individual. Nothing could be more just than that.--( Hear, hear.) It might be that he (the Noble and Learned Lord) had been misinformed ; but he had taken—as he always did— his facts from the petition which had been put into his hands, and he was not answerable for what the petition con tained. He had stated the facts, and made his comments upon those facts. In some of these instances the facts stated in a petition were not entitled to receive full credit ; but in this instance he entirely believed every one tittle of the facts, and now still believed every one of those facts to be cor rect ; and his firm conviction was, that when those facts came to be fully disclosed to their Lordships, they would be of opinion that they would have warranted him in making his comments much more stringent than he did. But if he was wrong, he could only say that he was not present any more than his Hon. Friend. His Hon. Friend was 400 miles oti. He, however, never attacked his Hon. Friend. He had said it was the Law Officers of the Crown in Scotland that were to blame. If it were to be said that he had been misinformed, a production of the papers which he was now about to move for would show that. If that production was refused, it would be an admission that he was right. If it was not refused, then it would be seen wherein he was misinforrned. His statement was, that first one indictment was preferred with wrong charge s , th a t th en t h ey were i mpr i sone d upon the wrong charges; that then the indictment was deserted, and that they were kept in prison till a right indictment wag framed : but in order to make it the more right, they in cluded in it the wrong indictment. That_ was his statement—all the rest was matter of inference. He would now move for the following papers, which would at once prove whether there was the least error in hie suggestion :-Ist, a copy of the indictment or criminal letters, raised at the instance of her Majesty's Advocate against the prisoners; secondly, a copy of the interlocutor pronounced by the High Court of Justiciary. If he had been wrong, the return to those would be nil. Thirdly, a copy of the second indictment, if there was a second, or criminal letters against the same persons ; fourthly, the dates of the first arrest of the same persons respectively, of their subsequent liberation, and of their trial and conviction. These were dates, and would not be "nii." Then came the fifth, which was for copies of the record and verdict, and sentence of the Court of Justiciary on the same persons at the said trial. The return to the last could be made in 48 hours, because the Horne Office would be in possession of the papers. The prisoners had been brought from Scotland, and put into the hulks. They had been seven months in prison on the tight and wrong indictment, and were now in hulks, which was a grievous aggravation of imprisonment—the most grie vous men could be subjected to. He was wrong in stating . . the other night, that two mon th s ' i mpr i sonment was all they could have undergone in this country—three months' imprisonment was all they would have undergone, if they had been tried or convicted in Cumberland or Yorkshire for the same offence. Lord MELBOURNE thought that the Noble and Learned Lord would have acted more according to the usage of their Lordships' House if he h a d given notice of his intention t 0 move for these pap ers . B ut, at the same time, consi dering that they only related to the proceedings of the Court, there could be no real objection to their pro duction. He would not offer any opposition to the motion of the Hon. and Noble Lord, but he entirely denied the inference which the Noble Lord would draw from the circtlm• stance that the return to some of these papers might be nil. He did not know whether these papers might be in the Hume-office or not. It was not necessary that they should be there. to justify the Secretary of State for bring ing up the convicted persons from Scotland. It was o::ly necessary that he should have found the conviction to have taken place, and that the sentence had been passed upon them by the Court. As to the question whether the punishment awarded to such offences by the law of Scotland was not too se vere, and that of England more proper and apportioned to the offence, he admitted to be a question of difference bet3veen him self and the Noble Lord. For his own partlhe did not think that the Scotch law was to severe, and he thought that the sen tence should be carried into effect in this case. He was ready to argue the matter with the Noble and Learned Lord, but he would only say at present that it gave him great concern that the Noble and Learned Lord took such a view of this question, o hich was to the working people themselves of the deepest consequence, and they were already too much disposed to look unfavourably upon the laws by which such offences were re pressed. He was sorry to think that the high personal character of the Noble Lord and the high character of the situations which he had held should be lent to the condemna tion of the law officers of the Crown, of the Courts of Jus tice in Scotland. and of the law itself. The Noble Lord's declarations on this occasion would give greater encourage ment to the offences of which these persons had been convicted, and do the working classes more injury, than would be reme died by his lectures on political economy, or the rebukes which he might throw out in that House against the petitioners in their favour. Lord BROUGHAM said that the corrections of the Noble Lord would never prevent him from standing up to do his duty, whether to rebuke petitioners or to comment upon the conduct of the Ministry, or upon the law officers of the Crown, who are amenable to Parliament as well as the Ministers in the discharge of their duty. He would rebuke even the judges of the land, when they appeared to him to deserve it. The judges knew that they were not above the law which it was their duty to administer, or the Legislature from which those laws emanated. Au insinua tion had been made that he who had held high offices ought to be the last person to make such remarks. He who lnving exercised those functions knew the duty of a judge ought to state his opinion, when he thought that other judges were acting wrongly. As lie knew and felt that, he would not shrink from any commenton conduct of his own. When he held office he would not shrink behind the defence of a Ministerial advocate. He arraigned the conduct of the Judges and not the law officers of the Crown, and it was therefore he called for the papers. As to his (Lord B.) arraigning the law, he was placed in this dilemma—lf he advocated the law of England he condemned the law of Scotland, when he was obliged to notice the discrepancy by which an offence was punished as a felony of the highest class on one side of the Tweed, and as a trivial offence upon the other. He would advise the Noble Viscount, instead of sneering at ex- Chancellors for commenting upon the conduct of Judges and taunting me with my lectures on political economy, he should apply himself to remove the discrepancy to assimilate the laws of the two countries, and to do equal justice to Scotland, as well as to Ireland. The Duke of WELLINGTON would not enter into the controversy between the two Noble Lords who spoke last. The subject would receive the fullest consideration in another place, as a Committee had been appointed to enquire into the state of combination among the working classes. He said— My Lords, I cannot avoid expressing the satisfaction which I feel, that this subject should have come early under the con sideration of Parliament ;. for, I believe there is no griev ance existing in any country in the world equal to the extent of the abuses going on in all parts of this united and hitherto called civilized kingdom ; I believe no grievance exists equal to the abuse and injury inflicted on the labouring classes by the system of combination.—( Hear.) believe, my Lords, that, from all accounts which I have received, there is scarcely any individual in the country, depending on his labour for subsistence, or any one employing labourers who has not reason to complain of the Combination Laws in this eountry. I intrcat the Noble Lords opposite, who have the Government in their bands, to turn their attention to the subject, and to watch what passes before the Committee, so that they may propose a measure to Parlia ment to put down the system of combination which prevails throughout this country—if they do this they will satisfy the object of the Noble and Learned Lord, and bring the law into the same state in both parts of the kingdom. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose to move the biocolid read' the Bill for allowing Clergymen to hold Stock tock Companies. He said it would merely be necessary for him to state the nature of the evil which the Bill was intended to remedy, and then the provisions of the Bill which were intended to meet that evil. According to the law as it now stood, and as it was laid down in a recent decision of the Court of Exchequer, none of the large Joint Stock Companies which were now so common were enabled to recover any sum of money which was due to them, if by chance any one of the shareholders should happen to be a clergyman, and sharing in its profits. By the 57 George the Third, all clergymen were prohibitee from dealing at all. The words were not from buying and selling," as in the former Act, but they were absolutely prohibited from dealing. That was not founsl out till the recent proceedings in the Court of Exchequer. A Company brought an action upon a bill of exchange, against the drawer—the defendant pleaded that two clergymen were shareholders in the Company, and that therefore all contracts made with the Company were void, and that he was not liable to pay. The case was fully argued, and in the month of January last the Court unanimously pronounced their opinion that by the 57 Geo. 3, they were left no option, but to decide that the transaction was illegal. There had been no appeal from the deci sion, and, therefore, their Lordships were bound to take it as the state of the law. By that decision, any person who had laid out his money in any great undertaking which had lately been carried out, if they had a clergyman for a partner, were liable to lose all that they had laid out. The Bill was not intended to put parties into a different situation than they intended—it was merely to prevent them from departing from the contract had ent e r e d in to at first, and forcing th em t o com plete it. He trusted their Lordships would have no objection to make the Act retrospective, so as to put an end to all actions now pending .of the nature contemplated by the Bill, giving at the same time the defendant the full costs of his defence, connected with th e l egal point embraced in the Bill. The Bill was limited only to next Session of Parliament ; and the reason of that was, that there was a Bill for abolishing and for regulating pluralities, now before the other House, which would provide for the manner in which clergymen might deal. Of course it would never be allowed that they might buy an d sell ; but, on the other hand, it was impossible that they could debar Clergymen from holding Bank Sto c k, or f rom insuring their lives in any Company which divided the profits among the insured. He trusted their Lordships would cordially give the second reading to that relief Bill. Lord DEN 11 A N thought it was absolutely necessary this Bill should pass, although he was not an advocate fur ex post facto l aw . But this Bill was requisite, in order to prevent a dishonest man getting rid of his own liabilities by means of p articular enaetments in a Bill brought in for other purposes. This case differed from that of a common informer, who was set in motion by : the Legislature, and if he, in obedi ence to the laW; sued a poison for that which was made an offence, it was hard that he should be deprived of his costs. H a thought that persons who had set up a dishonest defence to actions already commenced relating to this matter ought not to have their costs ; but, at the same time, he should be sorry to risk the fate of the Bill by propos ing any amendment of that sort. He would, however, submit to the consideration of their Lordships whether it was not pro per in such a case that costs should be granted to the plaintiff. Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested that the preamble of the Bill should state m,:re definitely the grounds on which die measure was introduced. The Bill was then read a second time, and the House ad journed till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEs. 15. In consequence of the Ballots for Members to serve on the Bristol and Sligo Election Committees being fixed for this day, the gallery was not opened till lialf.pAst four o'clock. ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMITTEE. The LORD ADVOCATE appeared at the bar, and stated that he was directed by the Committee appointed to inquire and report upon the petition against the return for Roxburgh to inform the House the Committee met this morning pursuant to adjournment, when they received a letter from Mr. James Duff, one of the members of the Committee. stating that he was prevented by illness from attending this day ; and they ac cordingly adjourned to Eleven o'Clock to-morrow morning. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from a gentleman named Mills, Engineer of one of the Brighton Railway Companies, stating that it had been asserted, that it was with his consent, and the consent of the subscriber:: on his railway, that the Bill carried last Session had passed —but that this was not the truth : for that this Bill had been passed without the knowledge or the consent of the sub scribers to the Railway Company with which he was connected Petitions on various subjects were presented by the Marquis of Chandos, Mr. Barnard, Sir J. Y. Buller; Sir R. Ferguson, Mr. Babies, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr: Chalmers; but from the noise that prevailed in the House, we could not catch the purport of them. SLIGO BOROUGH ELECTION. The Clerk of the Committees appeared at the Bar with the reduced list of the Committee appointed to inquire into the merits of the Sligo Borough Election petition. The Members were called over, at the table, as follows : Thomas Bowes, George Henry Dashwood, Francis Aglionby, Hon. Thomas Dundas, Richard M. Milnes, Lord Russell, Sir P. H. Campbell, Sir R. B. P. Phillips, John Parker, George Houston, and Rowland Alston. Mr. CRESWELL presented a petition from the Mayor and Burgesses of Liverpool, praying that they might be at The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition from Leith in favour of the Vote by Ballot. The SPEAKER said that any other Member who had pe titions to present with respect to the Ballot would present them in succession.—(Here a complete array of Members rose, which caused considerable laughter, and cries of " Order, order I" from the Chair.) Captain MIND S presented several petitions front dif ferent parts of Devonshire in favour of the Ballot. Mr. HARVEY wished to ask whether the vast number of Gentlemen who had risen in consequence of the call from the Chair wished to know whether the petitions they held were confined to the Ballot alone, or whether they did pray for other matters? The House ought to know, for he, for one, held some petitions which, though they prayed for the Ballot, prayed also for other measures. Mr. LAMBTON begged to assure the Hon. Member that the petitions he had presented were fur the Ballot alone. BALLOT. Petitions in favour of the Ballot were pn•ented by the Hon. F. H. Berkeley, from Bristol ; Mr, Fort, from Clithe roe; Mr. Warburton, from Bridport, and four parisks in Oxfordshire; Colonel Evans, from the parish of St. Jame:), Westminster; Mr. Handley, from Lincoln ; a Noble Lord, from Auchterarder, Perthshire; and Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, from Lambeth. Mr. — D'E YNC 0 URT also presented a petition from Char shalton, in Surrey, praying for the Ballot, an extension of the Suffrage, and a shortening of the duration of Parliaments. Sir W. MOL ESWORTH presented a petition from Leeds, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. From another place in Yorkshire, in favour of Universal Suffrage and the abolition of a Member's qualification.—( A laugh. ) Also one from another place in Yorkshire, in favour of the Ballot. The prayers of all these petitions he most cordially supported.—( Laughter. ) Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented a petition from Manchester, signed in two days by 15,000 persona, in favour of the Ballot. Petitions in favour of the Ballot were also presented by Colonel Butler ; by Mr. Dundas, from the City of York, signed by 1,000 persons ; by Mr. Hawkins, signed by 800 in habitants of Newport, in the Isle of Wight ; by Colonel Sharp, from Dumfries ; by Mr. Hodges, from various places in Kent ; and by Mr. R. Walker, from Bury, in Lancashire. Mr. HARVEY said he had nine petitions to present in favour of Parliamentary Reform from nine principal places, viz , Southwark, the town of Chelmsford, the borough of Colchester, Braintree, and another place in Essex; from North ampton, from the Protestant Dissenters of Carmarthen, from the town of Ipswich and the City of Glasgow,—all pray lag for an extension of the Suffrage, for an abbreviation of the duration of Parliament, and for the rote by Ballot, The petition from Ipswich prayed for something more : it prayed for the abolition of the property qualification, and it also prayed for what might not be unacceptable to some Mem bers of the House, especially those on the other side of the House, that Members should be paid.—( Great laughter.) The petition from the City of Glasgow, was the result of a large meeting convened in that City at the instance of what were termed the moderate Reformers, when an amendment was moved, proposing, that Universal Suffrage should be substituted, and that it should take precedence of the Ballot, which was carried by a majority.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. E. J. STANLEY presented a petition (from whence we did not hear), praying for the Ballot, Household Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments. BRISTOL ELECTION COMMITTEE. The Clerk, at the table, then read the revised list of the Members ballotted to serve on the Bristol Election Commit tee; as follows :—Nicholas Ball, Robert Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, 'William Currie, William Gibson Craig, George Wilbraham, Ralph Etvrall, W. B. .Brodie, and Charles Wood, Reformers ; and Sirs C. H. Coote, E. Stanley, and Thomas Marsland, Tories. IPSWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, Dr. M'Cann, the medical attendant of Mr. Duff, the Member for Bamffshire, who was this day absent from the Ipswich Election Committee through illness, was called to the Bar, and was examined by The SPEAKER, who asked—Are you, Mr. M'Cann, a member of the medical profession ?—1 am. Are you the medical attendant of Mr. James Duff, a Member of this House ?—I am. When have you seen him last ?—At four o'clock this day. Is he, in your judgment, so ill as to be unable to attend his duty as a Member of this House?—He is. Is his illness so severe as"to preclude the possibility of his attendance to-morrow or next day ?—Probably to-morrow. Do you expect he will be able to attend to-morrow P—l don't think it will he safe for him to attend to-morrow. Will he, do you suppose, be able to attend the next day ? I should hope he will, but lam not quite certain.—( Laughter. ) What is the nature of his illness ?—A severe cold. ( A facetious Member on the Ministerial side of the House near the bar here emitted a very singular sound, something composed of a " Hem," a wheeze, and a cough, which created great laughter.) The witness continued—He has a severe cold, and symp toms of inflammation. The witness was then ordered to withdraw. The LORD ADVOCATE moved that Mr. Duff be ex cused from further attendance on the Committee. The SPEAKER put the question. There were several " noes" from the opposition side of the House ; and strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place; and the question was accordingly carried in the affirmative. NATIONAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION. Mr. B. HALL presented a petition for leave to bring in a private Bill for the above Association.—Referred to the Committee. ST. PANCRAS PAVING BILL. The lion. Member also presented a petition from certain inhabitants of tho borough of Marylebone to consolidate the paving rates. BALLOT. Mr. SANFORD presented several petitions from parishes in the county of Somerset—in the neighbourhood of a Noble Lord, to whom they referred—praying for the Ballot ; and stating, that whereas in 1835, all the tenants of that Noble Lord, with the exception of four or five, voted for the Reform Candidates for West Somerset ; that Noble Lord having changed his steward, and engaged another, a violent partizan on the Tory side, all his tenants but a very few voted at the last election for the Tory candidates.— ( Cheers from the Ministerial benches, answered by ironical cheers from the Opposition benches. THE BALLOT. Lord MAHON presented a petition from the town of Hertford against the Ballot, which he said came be fore the House under ern se poculiar circumstances : A meeting was called in favour of the Ballot, but the friends of the good old English method of voting—(A laugh)—out numbered the adherents of the Ballot, and adopted this peti tion, which prayed the House never to consent to the adoption of that mode of voting. Mr. WARD said that he had a. petition of a very different nature to present from the same town. He understood that the persons whose names Ivere signed to the petition which was presented by the Noble Lord were persons who had no right to vote, and who were paid fur their attendance at the Meet -( Hear, hear.) The lion. Member then presented a petition in favour of the Ballot, which was signed by a large proportion of the inhabitants of Hertford. . . Lord MAHON said that with respect to the statement made by the Hon. Member as regarded the petition which he had presented, he was bound to say that it was the first he had heard of it. He would like to know the grounds on which the Hon. Member made that statement. Mr. WARD said he had strong grounds for supposing the Facts to be as he had stated, or he would not have made :he assertion. The facts had been communicated to him by letters horn friends of his in Hertford. Mr. HUME presented petitions from Kilkenny, in favour of the Ballot and Triennial Parliaments, from the parish of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex, praying for the Ballot alone ; from Carnarvon, also for the Ballot ; and from Wemyss, in Scotland, in favour of the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and triennial Parliaments. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from the borough of Kilmarnock, praying for the Ballot on this occasion ; but stating that they meant next to apply for the Extension of the Suffrage and Triennial Parliaments.—( A laugh.) Sir H. VYVYAN presented petitions from the Eastern division of the county of Cornwall, signed by 2,167 electors, praying for the protection of Vote by Ballot ; in the prayer of which the Hon. Baronet said he fully concurred. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition in favour of the ballot from East Stonehouse, signed by between 1,500 and 1,600 persons. Mr. CHARLES BULLER presented a petition from'a place the name of which we cJuld not learn, in favour of the Ballot, signed by electors out of 18 5 . Mr. O'CONELL presented petitions from Flint, and from places in Carnarvonshire, in favour of the Ballot; also a petition from the Mayor and Citizens of Norwich, very numerously signed, which was agreed to by the unanimous vote of a public meeting, at which the Mayor presided. Mr. SOMERVILLE presented a petition front the city and borough of Canterbury, in favour of the Vote by Ballot, and the shortening of the duration of Parliaments. Mr. E. ELLICE presented petitions from Cupar-in-Fifc, and from the Town Council of that place, in favour of the Ballot. Mr. GILLON presented petitions from Strathaven and Milton to the same effect. Mr. FIELDEN presented similar peritions from Wigan. Mr. E. BULLED. presented si m il ar petiti ons fromdiffe rent parishes in Staffordshire. Mr. ERLE presented similar petitions from five parishes in Oxfordshire. Mr. 0. STANLEY presented similar petitions. Mr. LEADER, presented a petition from Bridgewater in favour of the Ballot. The petitioners stated that no less a number than a hundred tenants of the Earl of Egremont bad been ejected from their tenements in consequence of having voted at the last elect . on for the LiberalMembers.—(Oßkosition Cheers ) He ( Mr. Leader), when he made that statement, expected to be cheered from the other side of the House; but be thought that cheer would be materially decreased, when he stated the c.: use of what had taken place. The • cause was that the late Liberal steward of the Noble Earl was dead, and had been suecteeded by one of Tory principle;.—(Cheers from the Ministrial Benches.) From his, (Mr. Leader's) connection ratio the Borough of Bridgewater, he felt justified in stating that the petition was signed by a large proportion of' the property and the intelligence of the Borough. Out of the four Magistrates of the Borough, three had signed it. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition from a parish in Devote, in favour of the Ballot. Mr. W i Z_KLE Y presented a petition from Stirling, signed 17 423 persons, Raying for an extension of the suffrage, shorten ing of ;he duration of Parliaments, and the vote by Ballot ; also, one from Comne, Lancaz•hire, complaining of the burden of the National Debt, praying 1; - )t• an abolition of the Corn Laws, an extension of the Suffrage, e shortening the duration of Parliaments, and the Vote by Ballot. Lord DUNGANNON wished to ask the Right Hon. tho Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, as the time fu? volun tary commutation of Tithes expired in October next, it was the intention of the Government to extend that time ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said .the matter was not connected with his department. Had notice of the question been given, he would have been prepared to give an answer. If the Noble Lord were to renew the ques tion when his Noble Friend (Lord J. Russell) was in his place, lie would be able to give an answer. I - Lord EBRINGTON had on a former occasion put a ques tion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with respect to the - confiscation of property of English merchants, previous to the declaration of war with Spain in 1804; on which occasion the Right Hon. Gentleman said it was proposed that the same course should be taken with them as With the Danish claims He wished to know from his Right I:Io. - t• Friend whether her Majesty's Government intended to take Any steps upon the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHINUER said that in the case of the Danish Claims certain parties • had suffered loss in time of war by acts w;:ich were unusual in ordinary casss. The feeling of the I-iPuse in that case was that the claimants should obtain re tress. Vic-,7ing the Spanish claims in a similar light, it was his in tention, i!I the course of the present year, to submit a motion with respect to t h , n - n to the House, giving, of course, sufficient time, so that the H o :ise might be satisfied that all parties lia ble to come under the stme class should have an opportunity of laying their cases before the House. The Estimate was being prepared, and a Treasury Minute would be shortly laid on the table. VOTE BY 13.A.LLOT. Mr. GROTE presented petitions in favour of the Ballot, from Bolton, in the county of Lancaster; signed by 6,580 persons ; from Mould, Flintshire, by 550 ; fro: 1 1 Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, by 1,300 ; Berwick-on-Tweed, sig,7ed by 750 ; Frome, in Somerset, 700; the united parishes of' Carberry and Dunforth, in Kildare, by 700. From the hunu l red of Mitford and Lawnditch, Norfolk; from Ripon, in Yorl4sbire; from Flint-Ellesmere, Salop; from HarwiChs Epping, and Harlow, Essex ; from Bungay, South Elmham ; the Mayor, Aldermen, and Town Council of Richmond, in Yorkshire ; Fairfordi Gloucester ; frem Budleigh, Salterton, Devon ; from the FreehOlders of Oxfordshire, near Tetsworth ; the Freeholders of Oxfordshire, near Henley-on-Thames; the parishes of Abdie and Dunbag„'n Fifeshire ' • the Preses of the Glasgow Reform Association ; a:ld from Great Marlow—in all 22. petition from Mr. BOLLING cordially supporte:l the Bolton ; and bore testimony to the res;iectability of the petitioners. THE VOTE BY BALLOT. Mr. GROTE—Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursu,tlit to m y notice to move for leave to bring in a Bill enacting L 'hot the votes at Parliamentary elections shall be taken by Ballot. I trust, Sir, that I shall stand acquitted of anything like urnilLe pertinacity or presumption of my own in renewing the motion now, if it were only for the numerous and weighty petitions' whleh have been laid on your table.—( Hear.) Sir, I undertook originally to introduce a proposition of a Secret Suffrage, from a strong conviction that there was no other method of voting compaible either with freedom or with purity of election. I was not fortunate enough to find myself supported by a majority of the House, and the old mode of voting still continues the law of the land s with all its tendencies, such as they are, to good as well as to evil ; and those tenden cies are manifest since the last discussion on the Ballot, in a manner the most flagrant and unequivocal (hear, hear); and so forcibly have the lessons of the last fsny months proved the indispensable necessity of some protection to the voter, that I feel animated by fresh hopes, and impellesd by addi tional strength of motives, to urge the subject again :Ton the new House of Commons here assembled.—(Hear, heat. Sir, I can scarcely flatter myself that I can advance much n,ew argument upon this subject in addition to what has been urges.( on former occasions, when it was discussed in this House; but experience has furnished us with new facts, and fresh as we aro from the recollection of the late election, I hope we shall approach the discussion of the Ballot with minds more candid and unprejudiced than htsretofore. I propose the Ballot not merely as a fanciful experiment for making that which is now good still better, not merely as a measure of insurance against evils remote and contingent—(Criss of Hear, hear) —but as a remedy against evils at. prcseni acknowledged and full of baneful working, an efficient remedi against inti midation and bribery.—(Cheers.) No one can deny that bribery and intimidation are serious injuries. As little can any one deny that bribery and intimidation, one or either of them, affect at this moment almost every vein and artery of our elective system—( Hear, hear, hear)—aOd that the remedies we possess against them are impotent and contemptible.—( Hear, hear.) That a remedy against such mischief is earnestly required is obvious to every one ; and let me ask what other measure is there—what substitute or remedy, of any promise or e fficiency, which has ever been produced, eren by those Gentlemen whose aversion to the Ballot was the most unconquerable ? Admitting even that my proposition presents nothing but a fair ps'obability and chance of success, yet what is the alternative? ;Ole alterna tive is that bribery and intimidation must continue as they are now—that the evil is entailed upon us permanently and beyond the reach of cure.—(Hear, hear.) But I really submit that this is a proposition far too discourag ing to be entertained by any sincere patriot, at least while the experiment of the Ballot remains yet to be tried. It has been common of late, more especially since the me morable declaration of the Noble Lord (John Russell) on the first night of the Session, to connect the Ballot more than it ever was before with otht7 propositions of Reform. The Hon. Member for Southwark (Mr. D. W. Harvey) had a notice on the books for the Bth of !his month, including the Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, and Household Suffrage ; but, though that Honourable IS amber's opinion was strongly in favour of connecting these flaw° lie had been good enough to withdraw his isicnice, that measures, it might not come in the way of a decision on the Ballot separately, and upon its own merits.—(Hear, hear, hear.) lam much indebted to him for this courtesy. ..My proposition now, as it has been before, is for the Ballot separately and singly, unaccompanied by any other measure whatever—not because I think that the Ballot, when applied to an: i mperfect representative system, can render that system perfect—not that I am insensible to the value of other measures of refsrm ; I am bound, both to Household Suffrage and to Triennial Parliaments—hut I know that the Ballot alone will rectify most of the abuses in the elective system ; and still more, because I am prepared to found it separately, on its own merits. To fix the extent of the suffrage, the duration of Parliaments, and the distribution of the constituency, in a way most conducive to good Gouernment, are doubtless most important problems : but it is a problem no less essential, though quite distinct from all these, to appoint such a method of voting as shall best guard against abuse is the exercise of the franchise.—(llear, hear.) Let us make what other arrangements vse please, still we cannot avoid the discussion of this last question, on its own ground and merits.—( hear, hear.) Whether we alter the franchise, or leave as it is now—whether we adopt Triennial Parliaments, or retain Septennial Parliaments—still, in either case, it is imperative upon us to fix a security for en abling the existing voters to give their votes with probity, in regard to the public—( Hear, hear, hear)--aoith safety in regard to themselves. —( Cheers. ) I call upon you, therefore, to decide upon a measure which will rescue the voter from temptation and constraint—which will abate intimidation and bribery, although the suffrage Le no more extensive, nor the constituency better distributed than are at present. Besides, Sir, I am prepared to show that the Ballot is a pro position which not only may be consistently supported, but which ought to be equally supported, both by those who ad vocate and by those who resist a farther extension of the suffrage. Not merely because under open voting the exist ing electors are exposed to wrongful interference, to severe personal hardship and vexation, and to factitious allure ments, from which it is but common justice and common prudence to relieve them, even although no farther mos.• cures of improvement were to be combined with that re lief; but also for another reason of no less importance. We have at this moment in round numbers nearly 700,000 qualified electors in the United Kingdom. There are some who think that this number is sufficiently large ; there are others, and I am amongst them, who think that it ought to be extended. But if any proposition were made to diminish the present constituency—if it were pro posed to cut down the number of electors from 700,000 to 400,000—most assuredly such an attempt would be resisted both by those who desired to adhere to the present franchise, and by those who sought to enlarge it. Now, Sir, look for one moment at the state of the facts, and you will see that election by open voting is tantamount to a very great curtail ment of the existing legal franchise ; sou will see that is no thing less than a sentence of practical disfrancliiaement to hundreds and thousands of electors —( Hear, hear.) It is well known that there is in every constituency a considerahl" ()action of electois who decline to exercise their political lianehise at all, because they cannot exercise it without giving serious offence to those whose good-will they dread to forfeit. —(Cheers.) And, with regard to many of those who do vote, give me leave to ask, what is the difference between taking away a man's vote altogether, and ,taking away front him the liberty of voting as he himsalf inwardly prefers ? What, is the difference between depriving a man of his franchise and depriving him of that free agencywhich is essential to the very idea and meaning of - the fran el:ise ? Is not the on nber of genuine and bona yids electois just as much lessened by the one act as the other ? Sir, it is but too plain that by condemning electors to vote openly, you practically extinguish free will and free choice in a very larg e p ro p ortion of them —perhaps not less than one-third of th e whole ; and you thus reduce the legal franchise, for all p ractical and public purposes, to ground,only - then,r f. thatits appeal extent. both to those wh o d es i re ex - It is up on t hi s spec i a l tensiiai of the suffrage and to those who oppose it, and call upon both of them to suisport nay present proposition, It